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    Dropped my MacBook Pro 17" Core i5 and hard drive seems "fishy"?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by RamGuy, Feb 21, 2011.

  1. RamGuy

    RamGuy Notebook Geek

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    Okay so I just "dropped" my notebook (MacBook Pro 17" with Core i5) or it rather slipped down from the couch really and hit the floor with a tiny "clunk" and I picked it up and everything seemed fine, it was still on and I was able to surf the web and continue my Excel sheet for the next 15min until Safari suddenly stopped working and even though I forced quitted it and Mac OSX told me it was not running any more but the damn thing was still hanging over my other screens so I decided to save my excel sheet (successfully) and then rebooted my MacBook Pro and then it was just staying in the grey screen without any Apple logo or anything what so ever for like several minutes until it displays a folder with a question mark over it fading in and out?

    I unscrewed the plate and checked if everything looked okay instead it, I made sure both the hard drive and the RAM was securely in place and nothing seemed damaged at all so I gave it another go with the same results so finally I decided to insert the OSX Installation DVD and run the disk utility and it recognise my Intel X25-M 80GB Gen2 SSD with the right serial number, part nr and everything but it claims it being only 8MB, without any partition or anything on it and I'm not able to test, format or do anything with it?


    Smells like a dead drive if you ask me, but how come my Intel SSD goes dead after such a small hit to the living room floor? SSD's shouldn't be prone to such a tiny shock damage? What's going on here? And as the DVD-drive is working it seems like the SATA-controller is still going strong.
     
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  2. Asherek

    Asherek Notebook Consultant

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    SSD's may be more shock resistant due to the nature of the technology vs spinning platters, but they're still electronic parts that can get damaged through a fall. Possible something else got damaged inside. Is there a way for you to hook up the drive to a desktop or another laptop to see if you can read the drive?

    It can even be a Windows machine; if you want to see the contents of the drive in Windows, there's several programs (I use one called MacDrive) which will allow you to view Mac partitions.
     
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